MESO's Mission and Awards

The MESO Association Mission Statement

What Is MESO?... An informative overview

The MESO Association is organized for the purpose of singly or collectively assisting any community or community agency with the work of public safety, severe weather warning, disaster preparedness, severe weather awareness, and public education in the above areas. Assistance will be provided in whatever capacity possible through the use of combined or individual skills and/or resources.

Basic intent is to implement and improve a public education program focused on severe weather safety and disaster preparedness. The goal is a combination of educational, civic, scientific, and research purposes that as a whole shall be considered as research applied to civic and educational ends for the purpose of assisting with the work of warning, severe weather education, and disaster preparedness.

MCWAR.ORG Website Awards

MESO's first website was hosted by Geocities and was created in August of 1998. It contained photos and field updates from our first group storm chase. It immediately gained popularity, but the awkward lengthy address was inhibitive to sharing and the disk space allotment was insuffient for planned growth. In July 1999, MESO registered the domain mcwar.org, an acronym for Multi-community Wide Area Resource. From 1999-2004, the website was hosted by NEXX, and iPowerWeb has been a reliable and generous host since 2004. The website has won numerous prestigious awards for educational content, user-friendliness, and for technical achievement.